Yes, lots of names in today’s quiz, either as the answers or as part of the questions.

Some easy and some quite difficult, but you’ll have to have a bit of knowledge of various subjects to answer them all correctly.

And as usual, if you get stuck, you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!

Enjoy and good luck.

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Q. 1: In which city does the American football team the ’49ers’ play?

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Q. 2: These two men had the same name, one was sentenced to death by hanging in the United States in 1859 and the other was a Ghillie who became close to Queen Victoria after the death of her husband Prince Albert – what was their name?

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Q. 3: And still on the subject of names, separated only by a vowel, what were the surnames of two famous painters born in Paris, France during the 19th Century who had a significant impact on the ‘impressionist’ movement? (There is usually a point for each correct answer in questions like this, but in this case if you get one right you’ll get them both right, so just one point up for grabs.)

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Q. 4: What type of animal is an Ibex?

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Q. 5: Who and what is ‘Tristan da Cunha’ ? (A point for each correct answer.)

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Q. 6: Which treaty with Germany brought a formal end to the First World War?

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Q. 7: What city is known as the ‘fashion capital of the world’ ?

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Q. 8: ‘Entomology’ is the study of what?

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Q. 9: In which organ of the body is insulin produced?

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Q. 10: As well as skiing, which other sport takes place on a piste?

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Q. 11: Who had himself crowned King of Scotland at Scone in 1306?

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Q. 12: Who performed the first human heart transplant?

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Q. 13: Who is the victim of ‘The Murder in the Cathedral’ in T S Eliot’s play of that name?

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Q. 14: In the Crimean War, Roger Fenton was the first person to be accredited in what capacity?

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Q. 15: What fictional character famously ‘tilted at windmills’ and who served as his ‘squire’ ?

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Q. 16: Which chemical element, number 11 in the Periodic table, has the symbol ‘Na’ ?

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Q. 17: What is the longest bone in the human body?

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Q. 18: In which spacecraft did Yuri Gagarin become the first man in space?

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Q. 19: In which country are two islands linked by the Seikan rail tunnel, the longest rail tunnel in the world? (Two bonus points are available if you can also correctly name the islands.)

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Q. 20: ‘Professor Henry Higgins’ and ‘Eliza Doolittle’ central characters in which George Bernard Shaw play and which Hollywood musical?

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ANSWERS

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Q. 1: In which city does the American football team the ’49ers’ play?

A. 1: San Francisco.

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Q. 2: These two men had the same name, one was sentenced to death by hanging in the United States in 1859 and the other was a Ghillie who became close to Queen Victoria after the death of her husband Prince Albert – what was their name?

A. 2: John Brown.

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Q. 3: And still on the subject of names, separated only by a vowel, what were the surnames of two famous painters born in Paris, France during the 19th Century who had a significant impact on the ‘impressionist’ movement? (There is usually a point for each correct answer in questions like this, but in this case if you get one right you’ll get them both right, so just one point up for grabs.)

A. 3: They are Édouard Manet (born 23 January 1832) and Oscar-Claude Monet (born 14 November 1840).

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Q. 4: What type of animal is an Ibex?

A. 4: A Mountain Goat.

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Q. 5: Who and what is ‘Tristan da Cunha’ ? (A point for each correct answer.)

A. 5: ‘Tristan da Cunha’ is the name of a famous Portuguese navigator and the name of an island in the South Atlantic that he first sighted it in 1506.

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Q. 6: Which treaty with Germany brought a formal end to the First World War?

A. 6: The Treaty of Versailles.

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Q. 7: What city is known as the ‘fashion capital of the world’ ?

A. 7: Milan.

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Q. 8: ‘Entomology’ is the study of what?

A. 8: Insects.

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Q. 9: In which organ of the body is insulin produced?

A. 9: The Pancreas.

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Q. 10: As well as skiing, which other sport takes place on a piste?

A. 10: Fencing.

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Q. 11: Who had himself crowned King of Scotland at Scone in 1306?

A. 11: Robert the Bruce. (Think back to the final scene in the movie Braveheart.)

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Q. 12: Who performed the first human heart transplant?

A. 12: Doctor Christian Barnard.

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Q. 13: Who is the victim of ‘The Murder in the Cathedral’ in T S Eliot’s play of that name?

A. 13: Thomas Beckett.

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Q. 14: In the Crimean War, Roger Fenton was the first person to be accredited in what capacity?

A. 14: War Photographer.

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Q. 15: What fictional character famously ‘tilted at windmills’ and who served as his ‘squire’ ?

A. 15: Don Quixote and his squire was Sancho Panza. (From the Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.)

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Q. 16: Which chemical element, number 11 in the Periodic table, has the symbol ‘Na’ ?

A. 16: Sodium.

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Q. 17: What is the longest bone in the human body?

A. 17: The femur, or thighbone, either answer gets you the point.

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Q. 18: In which spacecraft did Yuri Gagarin become the first man in space?

A. 18: Vostok 1.

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Q. 19: In which country are two islands linked by the Seikan rail tunnel, the longest rail tunnel in the world? (Two bonus points are available if you can also correctly name the islands.)

A. 19: The country is Japan, and for your two bonus points the names of the islands are Honshu and Hokkaido.

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Q. 20: ‘Professor Henry Higgins’ and ‘Eliza Doolittle’ central characters in which George Bernard Shaw play and which Hollywood musical?

A. 20: The play is called ‘Pygmalion’ and the movie version ‘My Fair Lady’.